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Should NHS trusts be social care providers?
- Author:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
NHS learning disability trusts are reinventing themselves as social care agencies within community or mental health trusts. Asks whether this should be a cause for concern as long as residents are discharged from the NHS and their services are provided in the community.
The dissemination of innovative cognitive-behavioural psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia
- Authors:
- TARRIER Nicholas, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(6), December 1999, pp.569-582.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
There has been considerable research in recent years that has suggested that non-drug psychosocial interventions have considerable benefits to patients suffering from psychoses. These interventions include family interventions, individual cognitive-behaviour therapy and early signs monitoring. In spite of these research findings the dissemination of these interventions into routine practice has been slow and patchy. This article briefly reviews these research studies and investigates reasons why dissemination of such evidence-based practice has not progressed.
Different strokes
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.5.99, 1999, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on worries over merging mental health and learning difficulties services.
Assessment of mental health problems
- Author:
- MOSS Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(2), April 1999, pp.14-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Examines the process of assessing mental health needs for people with learning disabilities, considering questions of targeting, mental illness and challenging behaviour, diagnostic assessment and quality of life. Recommends comprehensive assessment within an integrated care approach.
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland annual report 1998-99
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Annual report of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. The Commission has a statutory duty, under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, to protect people with learning difficulties or mental health problems from abuse, poor care, and inappropriate detention.
The national service framework for mental health: an executive briefing
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Critically examines seven standards proposed by the National Service Framework for Mental Health covering, mental health promotion, primary care and access to services, effective services for severe mental illnesses, caring for carers, and preventing suicide.
Services for people with challenging behaviour and mental health needs at risk offending
- Authors:
- MURPHY Glynis, FERNANDO Suman
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(3), July 1999, pp.31-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Government reports since 1990 on services for people with mental health needs, learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and/or criminal offending have recommended community living wherever possible. Nevertheless, most health and social service providers still find it difficult to attain the types of service proposed. It has recently been concluded that this was partly a result of the separation of services for people with learning disabilities form mainstream mental health services. This article reports the experience of a local service development intervention designed around the needs of this client group.
Staff culture and the management of challenging behaviours in people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WHITWORTH Denise, HARRIS Paul, JONES Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(11), July 1999, pp.376-378.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Formal behaviour modification programmes often fail to achieve results when transferred to the context of everyday care in residential settings for people with learning disabilities. Reports on a small-scale study which pinpoints a culture clash and credibility gap between the professionals who devise and direct the programmes and the direct care staff expected to implement them.
Clinical governance
- Authors:
- LOVELL Karina, RICHARDS David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(5), January 1999, pp.178-180.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Introducing a new bi-monthly series of clinical updates on mental health and learning disabilities policy and practice. The authors explain clinical governance and its implications for mental health services.
Social work, psychiatry and the law
- Authors:
- PRINGLE N.N., THOMPSON P.J
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 210p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Explores the approved social worker's role in contemporary mental health practice. Combines a description of various aspects of multi disciplinary working, with accounts of clinical signs and syndromes, set against the possibilities and challenges inherent in the ASW's duties. Includes chapters on: law, policy and practice; psychiatry, diagnosis and treatment; severe mental health problems; disturbances in children and young people; people with learning difficulties; culture and diversity; substance misuse; dangerousness, suicide and homicide; ethical issues; and developing a psychotherapeutic approach to approved social work.